Irene Rich

From Wikipedia Irene Rich October 13 1891 April 22 1988 was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies as well as radio Rich worked for Will Rogers who used her in eight pictures including Water Water Everywhere 1920 The Strange Boarder 1920 Jes Call Me Jim 1920 Boys Will Be Boys 1921 and The Ropin Fool 1921 She often portrayed society women such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermeres Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon 1940 In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother She was the mother of Gail Russells character in John Waynes Angel and the Badman 1947 in John Fords cavalry story Fort Apache 1948 she portrayed Mrs ORourke the wife of Sergeant ORourke Ward Bond In the 1930s Rich did much work in radio From 1933 to 1944 she hosted a nationwide anthology program of serialized minidramas Dear John aka The Irene Rich Show Her leading man was actor Gale Gordon who later played Lucille Balls apoplectic boss Mr Mooney on TV Rich appeared in stage productions including Seven Keys to Baldpate 1935 which starred George M Cohan the creator of the play and later As the Girls Go in 1948 Rich has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard and one for her contributions to the radio industry at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard